Am J Transplant, Volume 20, Suppl 3 Archives - Page 13 of 223 - ATC Abstracts

2020 American Transplant Congress
Change in the Willingness of Transplant Candidates to Accept Hepatitis C Virus Positive Deceased Donor Organs in the Era of Direct-Acting Antivirals
Q. Yuan, S. Hong, E. Roth, M. Sise, E. Bethea, W. Williams, H. Yeh, N. Elias
Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital，Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
*Purpose: Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications’ advent in 2014 very effectively changed the hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment landscape and allowed post-transplant HCV therapy. We aimed…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Does the New Heart Transplantation Allocation System Improve Access to Transplantation for Restrictive and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients? A UNOS Database Analysis
R. Y. Loyaga-Rendon¹, D. R. Fermin¹, M. Jani¹, R. L. Grayburn¹, S. Lee¹, M. G. Dickinson¹, M. Gonzalez¹, N. K. Shrestha², T. Boeve³, S. Jovinge², M. Leacche³
¹Cardiology, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, ²DeVos Cardiovascular Research Program, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, ³Cardiothoracic Surgery, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI
*Purpose: Historically, patients with end-stage restrictive (RCM) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), experienced longer wait times and increased waitlist mortality while awaiting a heart transplant (HT)…
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Transplant Monitoring and PTLD Detection with B Cell Receptor Repertoire Analysis in a Large Prospective Pediatric Cohort
K. Jackson¹, O. Martinez², S. Krams², M. Robien³, M. Lapasaran², B. Armstrong⁴, C. Twist⁵, K. Weinberg⁶, D. Gratzinger¹, B. Tam¹, M. Sever⁴, M. Brown³, D. Bernstein⁶, C. Esquivel², S. D. Boyd¹
¹Department of Pathology, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA, ²Department of Surgery/Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA, ³NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Roswell Park, Buffalo, NY, ⁶Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Univ School of Med, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) remains a serious problem in the pediatric transplant population. The Clinical Trials of Organ Transplantation in Children (CTOT-C)-06 is a…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Proposed Metrics for Recertification of Organ Procurement Organizations: Evaluation by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
J. Snyder¹, D. Musgrove¹, D. Zaun¹, A. Wey¹, N. Salkowski¹, J. Rosendale², A. Israni¹, R. Hirose³, B. Kasiske¹
¹SRTR, Minneapolis, MN, ²UNOS, Richmond, VA, ³Department of Surgery, Univ of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: On December 23, 2019, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed two new standards that organ procurement organizations (OPOs) must meet for…
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Kidney Procurement Biopsy Technique Does Not Determine Histologic Accuracy
V. Shah, K. King, S. Coley, G. Dube, D. Cohen, S. Mohan, S. Husain
Medicine-Nephrology, Columbia University, New York, NY
*Purpose:Procurement biopsies (PBx) are commonly used to evaluate the quality of deceased donor kidneys (DDK). However, the validity of PBx biopsy interpretation has been questioned,…
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The Effects of DGF after Deceased Donor Renal Transplantation Differ by KDPI
M. Molinari¹, W. Chang¹, D. Jorgensen², C. Wu³, S. Hariharan³
¹Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: We analyzed the effects of DGF on: (1) graft survival, (2) patient survival and (3) eGFR of adult recipients of deceased donor kidney transplants…
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Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Results in Superior Patient and Graft Survival When Compared to Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
A. Barbetta¹, M. Aljehani², M. KIM¹, C. Tien³, A. Ahearn¹, H. Schilperoort², L. Sher¹, J. Emamaullee¹
¹Surgery, abdominal transplat, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Surgery, abdominal transplat, Keck Medical School, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Center-specific or national registry studies have shown that living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) decreases waitlist mortality, reduces waiting time, and may offer superior patient…
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Using Artificial Intelligence Tools for Identification of High Risk Transplant Recipients for Focused Management
M. A. Schnitzler¹, C. Dagli², C. Canfield², N. Dzebisashvili³, C. Varma¹, D. Axelrod⁴, K. Lentine¹, R. Ouseph¹, H. Randall¹
¹Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ²Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO, ³CareDx, Brisbane, CA, ⁴University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Resources for post-transplant patient monitoring are limited. Statistical stratification can facilitate focused attention on highest risk patients. We developed a monitoring tool for graft…
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Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation in Caucasian versus African American Patients: Does Recipient Ethnicity Influence Outcomes?
J. Rogers¹, A. Farney¹, G. Orlando¹, C. Jay¹, V. Gurram¹, K. Gurung¹, A. Reeves-Daniel², A. Mena-Gutierrez², N. Sakhovskaya², M. Gautreaux¹, R. Stratta¹
¹Department of Surgery, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
*Purpose: The influence of African American (AA) recipient ethnicity on outcomes following simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT) in the modern era is uncertain.*Methods: From 11/01 to…
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Multiplexed Imaging Mass Cytometry Analysis Reveals a New Role for CD68+ Macrophages in Chronic Liver Transplant Rejection
J. Emamaullee, C. Man, J. Hoeflich, N. Ung, R. Sun, N. Matasci, J. Katz, J. Lee, S. Chopra, L. Sher, S. Asgharzadeh, O. Akbari, Y. Genyk
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: Rejection continues to be an important cause of graft loss and failure post-liver transplant (LT). Recently, a novel high-resolution mass spectrometry-based technique has been…